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The relationship between President Trump and Elon Musk imploded this week.

Trump and Musk have traded escalating barbs and threats via social media.

Musk-owned companies SpaceX and Tesla could see negative fallout from the breakup.

Will the spectacular implosion of President Donald Trump’s relationship with billionaire tech mogul Elon Musk be the kiss of death for SpaceX and Tesla?

Last week saw Trump host a fawning Oval Office send-off for Musk who was departing his role as de facto head of the president’s newly formed Department of Government Efficiency. But it didn’t take long for the gilding on the departure ceremony to wear thin as Trump and Musk traded an escalating series of barbs, insults and insinuations this week.

The tete-a-tete, carried out mostly on social med

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